pannier

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A large wicker basket, especially:
2. n. One of a pair of baskets carried on the shoulders of a person or on either side of a pack animal.
3. n. A basket carried on a person's back.
4. n. A basket or pack, usually one of a pair, that fastens to the rack of a bicycle and hangs over the side of one of the wheels.
5. n. A framework of wire, bone, or other material formerly used to expand a woman's skirt at the hips.
6. n. A skirt or an overskirt puffed out at the hips.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A bread-basket; a basket for provisions; hence, any wicker basket.
2. n. One of a pair of baskets slung across the back of a beast of burden to contain a load.
3. n. A basket for carrying objects on the back of a man or woman, used in mountainous countries and where the use of beasts of burden is not common.
4. n. 4. An adjunct of female dress, intended to distend the drapery of the skirt at the hips. It consisted essentially of a light framework of whalebone or steel wire of suitable form, secured at the waist; it is now also made of the material of the dress, puffed and made full.
5. n. A part of woman's head-dress; a stiff frame, as of wicker or wire, to maintain the head-dress in place.—6. In arch., same as corbel.
6. n. A shield of twisted osiers used in the middle ages by archers, who fixed it in the ground in anupright position and stood behind it.
7. n. 8. In hydraulic engineering, a basket or wickerwork gabion filled with gravel or sand, used in the construction of dikes, or to protect embankments, etc., from the erosion of water.
8. n. In the inns of court, formerly, a servant who laid the cloths, set the salt-cellars, cut bread, waited on the gentlemen in term-time, blew the horn as a summons to dinner, and rang the bell; now, one of the domestics who wait in the hall of the inns at the time of dinner. Also pannier-man.

Wiktionary

1. n. A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders.
2. n. A decorative basket for the display of flowers or fruits.
3. n. historical, fashion One of a pair of hoops used to expand the volume of a woman's skirt to either side.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass.
2. n. (Mil. Antiq.) A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.
3. n. A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.
4. n. A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips
2. n. a large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person
3. n. either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle)